"This story’s optimistic view of creativity and resistance is fairly irresistible" — Kirkus Reviews
"...shines a light on the importance of the written word, creativity, and the idea that even censorship cannot stop ideas from growing and blooming... a beautiful book with a beautiful message" — Emily Golightly, ESL Teacher, President of the Crystal Coast Reading Council
"This delicate and subversive little parable of a book, with its lyrical text and anarchic pictures, is just what we need in today's world" — Jane Yolen, award-winning children's author<br />
"A lovely work of art from the embossed title on the cover to the beautiful book-filled endpapers" — Writers' Rumpus
"A powerful tribute to the power of books" – Books My Kids Read